For the last 25 years, the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center has been a tourist attraction and a place where students study marine life.
Now, this coastal and marine preserve on North Ocean Boulevard soon could take the additional role of a haven for sick

The small Island nation of Kiribati has become a global conservation leader by establishing the world's largest marine protected area - a California-sized ocean wilderness of pristine coral reefs and rich fish populations threatened by over-fishing and

ANCHORAGE, Alaska --Albatross looking for a free meal on the high seas often pay the price of being killed or injured going after baited hooks.
Now, fishing fleets around the world have agreed to use measures to prevent hooking albatross and other seab

THE EFFECT of seismic exploration on Australia's best-known blue whale feeding ground is set to intensify, just as signs emerge that the endangered ocean giants are increasingly sick.
Surveys with exploding airguns are planned for 5900 square kilometre

Three green turtles were officially discharged from the UnderWater World today after a bad bout of gas from eating too much junk resulted in them being beached.
With no Rennies or antacid available under the sea - the turtles had to spend up to five mo

Environmental authorities are concerned someone is deliberately sabotaging Top End river systems with a dangerous pest, the African tilapia fish.
The fast-breeding exotic pest species can compete for food with and predate on native Australian fish, and

Japan's Dolphin Hunt Sags Under Protests, Concerns Over Mercury Contamination. Every autumn and winter, hunters from this craggy Japanese fishing village corral thousands of dolphins into a tiny, isolated cove and kill them for meat and fertilizer, turnin

COCOA BEACH, Fla. -- Surfers paddling near a North Atlantic right whale and her calf on Tuesday drew Cocoa Beach police to the scene.
The surfers approached the whales just off 10th Street, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.
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Foxes and rubbish are the two biggest dangers facing turtles nesting on our coastline this season.
Retirees Errol and Dot Crane, volunteers with the Caloundra Turtle Monitoring Group, believe it is the community's job to help protect the sea creatures.

An extremely rare river dolphin has been beaten to death by fishermen in southern Bangladesh, the state-run BSS news agency reported.
Fishermen at Mongla, near the Sunderbans mangrove forest, netted a Ganges river dolphin on Monday (local time) and bea

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) - Eighty-two feet above the shore at the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, biologist Joel Ortega spots a gray whale swimming 3 nautical miles offshore.
A few seconds later, his team of observers, on hand with binoculars, a surveying instrumen